The Choice of Old Man
Who, huh?

Heavy rain spots flushed the body of a woman in the range of twenty-seven years. A strong wind blew on his face. The thunderous roar continued to echo in the overcast sky with clumps of dark clouds. The woman looked at her husband who was covered in blood under her feet.

Derissa Saraswati. The woman was a patient at Atma Jaya hospital. She stabbed her husband seventeen times in the stomach, because she was openly cheated. When Derissa had regained consciousness from fainting, she saw her husband making out on the sofa near her bed.

This morning, Derissa killed her husband on the rooftop. He managed to persuade the man to accompany him for a walk together. Derissa did it without guilt. Despite this, the pain in his heart was still so pronounced. His grip on the dagger with the bloodstain was tightening. His emotions can't be contained anymore.

She tried to stab her husband again. However, the sound of falling objects made him swiftly circulate his gaze around. Surprisingly, there was no one there. Derissa dragged her husband's body down as soon as possible.

"It's a punishment for daring to curse me."

Her husband's body was already at the end of the rooftop barrier. Then, Derissa pushed the man's body.

****

Ilona was humming a little while walking into the hospital. The sound of people falling made him stop stepping, he was silent. A splash of water hit her umbrella, not rain but blood. Ilona was so flabbergasted that she could not speak. Blood droplets flowed there, the girl slowly raised her umbrella.

"AGRISH!"

Reflexes, Ilona throws her umbrella while screaming in fear. A man was lying before him with blood continuing to seep in his stomach. Ilona cried sobbing, not believing she would see him directly in the real world. Usually he only sees things like in Korean dramas or crime movies.

"Mrs ... Ilona was scared." cried Ilona. The girl's body was sitting on wet asphalt in the rain. The crying is getting louder. The clock is still showing at seven past 15 minutes, in the hospital yard is still quiet. Visitors will usually arrive at eight in the morning.

"Geez!"

Regan who had just arrived was also flabbergasted to see him. He immediately helps Ilona stand up and gives her umbrella to the girl. Regan crouched down, checking the man's condition. There was already no pulse and heartbeat, the man's face looked pale with blood already mixed with rainwater.

Regan told Keenan. The phone is not connected. He sent emergency messages to the police and Keenan. Regan straightened her body, spontaneously her gaze fixed on a woman on the outskirts of the rooftop.

"Lo see? No, someone is going to kill themselves. Whoa! Can't be in this line." Regan took shelter on the hospital porch, then contacted Keenan again. "Keen, bad! Cepet to rooftop now. A girl is suicidal!"

"Seriously? I'm on the way there."

"Don't let him get away. I suspect he did."

"What do I do?"

Regan rubbed her face. "Later I'll clear."

After that, Regan asked for help from the nurse in the lobby. They arrived while pushing the gurney. All of them were wearing rubber gloves, so as not to mess with fingerprints around the victim's wounds. They picked up the man and brought him inside to be examined.

Regan turned to Ilona. He looked at the girl from underfoot to the tip of her hair. "Where's my jacket?"

"J-jacket? I can't see my clothes getting all wet!" ketus Ilona, the girl was still trying her manners on people older than her.

"Eh, Upil the Elephant! Do I look old in your eyes?"

Ilona was not upset, she was even grim. "A little, anyway."

"These are ... ."

Regan shuddered amusedly. "Come on, let's get a kid."

****

The rain is starting to fall. Keenan ran and kept running up the stairs. He lifted up his cover cloth and pulled out his hoodie sweater hoodie. Arriving at the rooftop, Keenan sees Alexa approaching Derissa. The man was silent in the doorway watching Alexa's movements.

"Udah kill people, but you don't want responsibility?" says Alexa flat.

Derissa reverse body. "Who said? I want responsibility, I want to."

The woman closed her eyes. Then, stretching out both hands, felt a gentle breeze pound on his face. Derissa let her body plunge down. Alexa immediately grabbed Derissa's one hand. After all, suicide is not the right way to solve the problem.

A few hours before the incident, Alexa was bored in the ICU room with a Yoga. The man advised her to exercise early in the morning, surround the hospital while doing muscle stretches. He finally followed his doctor's advice. Alexa and Derissa ride in the same elevator with her husband, when she accidentally sees a sharp dagger tucked in the pocket of Derissa's pants.

Alexa followed the couple. Arriving at the rooftop, he only witnessed the quarrel between husband and wife. However, the longer it is noticed the quarrel becomes heated. How shocked Alexa was to see what Derissa did next. He was about to record it, his phone's breath fell to make a sound.

Keenan moves pull on Alexa's waist which holds Derissa's wrist. While down there, there were already several people watching the rescue, they flocked to record the action and uploaded it on social media.

"Pull."

Alexa pulls Derissa using both hands, Keenan turns on the woman's next hand. They manage to pull Derissa's body into the rooftop. The breath of Alexa and Keenan. Shortly after, Regan comes to put the handcuffs on Derissa's wrists.

"It's as easy as it is to solve a problem? If you kill yourself, it's not finished but it's getting bigger" Alexa told Derissa.

Derissa looked down embarrassed, not daring to look at the face of her interlocutor. Regan took the woman to the police station for follow-up.

"Lexa!"

Keenan was about to open up a conversation about the woman. Not a word had he been able to say, Keenan was stunned to see a man with a black coat poking out from behind the roof door. Gavin slams into Alexa.

Gavin advanced his face into the girl's ear and whispered. "Lo should be on guard with him. He always messes up our relationship. I know all the lies of those closest to you. Including him."

"We're getting out of here. The people here are very dangerous to you. They want you dead."

A moment Ratna's words flashed through his mind. His empty mind was now filled with the words of the two men. Alexa releases Gavin's embrace. He seemed completely confused. "Who, huh?"

Gavin pulled the corner of his lips. "Gavin Sanjaya's. The man who will be your husband, after you divorce."

"Alexa, don't trust him. You don't even know her, I'm sure she must be trying to manipulate your mind" Keenan told Alexa, trying to convince the girl.

"From the beginning, you should have believed him. He's always following you anywhere, or maybe this abis he's got a bad intention to kill you." Gavin did not give up. He continues to instigate Alexa until his wish is fulfilled.

Keenan placed both hands on his waist while exhaling a rough breath. He has eased his emotions as much as possible because there is Alexa. But emotions controlled him, until the man landed a hard blow on Gavin's face. Alexa spontaneously knocks on Gavin's arm.

"Gue wants to go home, but not with them." Alexa looked up at Gavin. "But the same lo."

TBC.